Combined placket-fastener and belt-retainer.



Patented luly 25, I899.

A. HILDEBHANDT & A. C. UESTEBLA. COMBINED PLACKET FASTENEB AND BELTRETAINER.

(Application filed may 5, 1899.)

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AtLuFu'LE UNITED STATES PATENT .OFFICE.

ALBERT HILDEBRANDT AND ADAM c. ,OESTERLA, on BALTIMORE,

MARYLAND.

COMBINED PLACKET-FASTENER AND. BELT-RETAINER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 629,684, dated July 25,1899.

Application filed May 5, 1899. Serial No.- 715,652. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ALBERT HILDEBRANDT and ADAM C. OESTERLA, citizensof the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the .State of Maryland,have invented certain new and usef 111 Improvements in a CombinedPlacket- Fastener and Belt-Retainer, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in a combined placket-fastenerand belt-retainer for womens garments; and it consists in the novelgarment-fastener constructed as hereinafter described.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which-Figure 1 is a perspective rear view of a waistband and skirt providedwith our im proved fastening. Fig. 2 illustrates a front and also anedge view of the plate and stud. Fig. 3 illustrates two .views of thehook-plate. Fig. 4 shows the relative position of the'stud and hook whenthe same are fastened together.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a skirt having the usualwaistband b and placket-opening. The placket has the ordinary flaps cc", the latter flap c overlapping onto the flap a when the placket isclosed.

A plate 6 of suitable form, but in the present instance elliptical inshape, carries a stud f, which latter may be riveted or otherwisesecured to said plate, and said stud is provided on its end with a headg. The plate 6 in the present instance is also provided with holes 72.,through which thread-stitches may be taken to secure same to thegarment.

The hook-plate t is provided at its upper edge with adownward-projecting hook i, and at its lower edge said hook-plate isprovided with a cut-away portion j, wide on the lower edge and graduallycontracted as it extends upward and forms a slot, which at its uppernarrow part curves laterally and downwardly, as at k, and forms a hookedprojection Z. At either side the said hook-plate 11 is provided withholes m, by means of which the said plate may be stitched to thegarment.

It is obvious that we might secure the hookplate '5 and the plate a tothe garment by other well-known means employed in this class ofarticles.

By reference to Fig. 1 it will be seen that l the plate e, carrying thestud f, is in the present instance secured to the inner flap 0 of thewaistband andon the outside of said waistband with the stud projectingoutwardly. The hook-plate 'i is secured to the outer flap 0', but on theinside of the waistband b. It will thus be seen by reference to Fig.4that to fasten together the two flaps of the placketopening it is onlynecessaryto guide the stud f into the wide lower cut-awayportion j, andthe tendency to pull the two flaps apart will serve to seat the saidstud in the downwardlycurved slot 70, where it will be retained in po-'sition by the head 9 of the stud taking over the inside surface of thehook-platet'. The book 7: projects above the Waistband l) and is inposition to take over an ordinary belt, such as women commonly wear.This hook therefore will prevent the belt from slipping up ward, and itwill be seen that the device as a whole serves two purposes.

By our construction a simple, cheap, and

efiective fastening is produced.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A combined placket-fastener and belt= retain er having in combinationa stud member secured to one flap of the placket; a hook member securedto the other flap of the placket, said hook member being provided with awide lower cut-away portion forming a hooked projection, l, whichreceives the stud, and at its upper edge said hook member provided witha downward-projecting hook adapted to take over the edge of a belt.

2. A garment-fastening havingin combina tion a plate member carrying astud and pro* vided with means for securing same to the garment; a hookmember comprising a plate having its lower edge cut away to form a slotwhich extends upward and then curves downward and is adapted to engagesaid stud and a downward projecting hook, 'i, at the upper edge of saidplate and means for securingthe plate to the garment, for the purposeset forth. In testimony whereof we aflix our signa= tures in thepresence of two witnesses.

ALBERT HILDEBRANDT. v ADAM O. OESTERLA. Witnesses:

CHARLES B. MANN, J r., Gno. KOETHER.

